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My only real beef with the Mackie HDR24/96 and MDR24/96 hard disk
recorders is that they wouldn't support disk drives larger than 32 GB.
Not that I ever really wanted to store any more audio than that on a
single drive, but it's become difficult to buy smaller drives from
storefront sources these days.

Mackie has just announced the availability of a replacement BIOS ROM
which allows the recorder to use drives as large as 120 GB. It's
practically a secret at this point, having been (as far as I can see
anyway) only announced on the Mackie user's forum, but if you have an
HDR and don't follow that forum, you can find the info on the
installation kit at
http://www.mackie.com/products/pdf/hdr_bios_upgrade.pdf

A couple of "nominals" that might interest you.

- It's only for the HDR, not the MDR (which, being essentially the
same recorder but without the graphics, has the same limitation).
The real reason why it's not available for the MDR is that you need
to re-do the CMOS setup (because it's diffferent with the new BIOS)
and to do that requires a monitor and keyboard. Mackie doesn't want
you to dig up the MDR to connect the monitor and keyboard (void the
warranty and all that) but if you're clever (and if they'll sell
you the kit even though you don't have an HDR) it can be done.

- It's nominally for extending the size of the external (removable)
drive, but if you want to dig in to your recorder and install a
larger inernal drive, that works too. Same caveat as above.

In case you're wondering:

- The SDR24/96 already works with drives well up into the hundreds of
gigabytes. They say 2 terabytes, but I don't know anyone who's ever
tried anything larger than 200 GB.

- The MDR24/96 has been discontinued since September 2002, so unless
you got a new last-gasp-old-stock unit, it's nearly out of warranty
anyway, though Mackie has traditionally not been very fussy about
watching the clock with warranty support.

For those of you who search the newsgroups for everything you can find
about a particular product and have looked for postings about the
Mackie hard disk recorders have no doubt seen me whining about this
limitation, so I thought I'd let you know that, wile there's still a
limitation, it's likely that we'll be able to get 40-120 GB drives for
at least a few more weeks now. That's put an extension on its useful
life as a removable media recorder and that's a good thing.



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